Functional Simulation Engineer in Cambridge

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Summary

Lead the evolution of how we build, maintain, and scale large‑scale pre‑silicon simulation software using AI and large language models (LLMs) on the SimNow AI team. The role involves setting technical direction, building production‑grade AI systems, and acting as a technical leader for architecture decisions, mentorship, and adoption of AI‑assisted workflows across AMD.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end‑to‑end AI pipelines for SimNow automation, spanning specification ingestion, planning, multi‑level C++ code generation, validation, and deployment.
• Lead design and code reviews, making technical decisions that balance scalability, safety, and long‑term maintainability.
• Mentor engineers on modern C++ best practices, large‑scale system design, and AI‑assisted development techniques.
• Collaborate with SimNow core teams, hardware architects, and pre‑silicon validation engineers to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Design and build LLM‑based agents that generate complex C++ device models, including state machines, register callbacks, serialization, and multi‑layer architectures.
• Develop code‑base‑intelligence systems (e.g., RAG pipelines, semantic analysis, clang tooling) to extract patterns from C++ history.
• Implement closed‑loop build–test–iterate workflows where agents generate code, compile it, run tests, analyze failures, and refine outputs safely.
• Extend Python‑based test harnesses and build evaluation frameworks to measure correctness, specification compliance, and productivity impact.
• Design scalable prompt and context‑engineering systems (templates, includes, pattern libraries) for complex multi‑step agentic workflows.
• Build telemetry, metrics, and dashboards to understand AI effectiveness, quality, cost, and adoption.
• Instrument agent workflows with observability and feedback loops to support continuous improvement.
• Drive best practices for AI‑assisted engineering across the pre‑silicon validation organization.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of professional C++ experience with large, complex codebases.
• Expert‑level knowledge of modern C++ (C++11+) including templates, STL, RAII, smart pointers, move semantics, and advanced OOP patterns.
• Deep understanding of compilation pipelines, linking, symbol resolution, and debugging complex build failures.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining modular architectures in multi‑million‑line C++ systems.
• Experience modernizing or extending large legacy codebases without breaking existing functionality.
• Strong Python skills for test automation, evaluation, and infrastructure tooling.
• Production experience building AI‑powered systems, developer tools, or code‑generation pipelines, or a demonstrated strong trajectory with substantial hands‑on LLM/agentic work.
• Experience designing multi‑step agentic systems with tool use, state management, and iterative refinement.
• Strong prompt and context‑engineering skills, including validation and guardrails.
• Experience defining metrics and evaluation strategies for code quality and correctness.

Preferred Experience

• Pre‑silicon validation, functional simulation, or emulation workflows.
• Reading and interpreting hardware specifications (block diagrams, register maps, signal definitions).
• Verilog/SystemVerilog familiarity or computer architecture background.
• Experience with clang/LLVM tooling or static analysis infrastructure.
• Track record of technical leadership in large engineering organizations.

Academic Credentials

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Benefits

AMD offers benefits at a glance. Equal Opportunity Employer AMD and its subsidiaries are equal‑opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political or third‑party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available.